Dungeon Streaming in a Chastity-Reversed World with 1:99 Male-to-Female Ratio! I Might Be a Rare Man, But I’ll Risk My Life to Find a Wife! - 69

Chapter 69: The Man Who Was Spoken to of Love and the Woman Who Spoke of Love

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The three of them were sitting on the bench in the private room. They sat squeezed together in the center of the fairly large bench. With Maru on his left and Shinobu on his right, Ittou sat in the middle, for some reason with both of their arms intertwined with his, being pressured from both sides. The cheerful, childlike-but-undeniably-beautiful Maru on one side and the overwhelmingly cool beauty Shinobu on the other. Normally, Ittou would have thought this was exactly the situation of “flowers in both hands.”

Normally, that is.

“Shinobu’s advice is definitely something shallow, you know~ Paper-thin shallow, even…!! I think you should listen to my advice instead～!!”

“Pa… paper-thin…? Itsukushima-kun. My advice is a head… No, three heads above hers, and you don’t have to listen to Maru’s elementary-school-level advice, okay?”

On the left was Maru—the student council president—who, when mocked for being childish, exploded and released magic capable of burning everything to the ground. On the right was Shinobu—who, if her small chest was pointed out, turned her gaze to absolute zero and summoned a blizzard that froze all. Ittou, who was sitting in the center, was overwhelmed. He was unable to handle the dangerous “flowers” on both sides.

“Haha… Is that so…”

Why… Why did it end up like this…!?

The training room had turned into a disaster zone because of the magical warning shots fired by the two after stepping on each other’s landmines. Still, since both were in the student council, although several students were knocked down by the pressure of their magic, no one was injured. Perhaps the one who took the greatest damage was Fujisaki.

The moment Fujisaki entered the training room, she pointed at Ittou and shouted “DANGEROUS PERSON!” But after spotting Maru—the academy’s greatest hazardous material and dangerous person—she quietly smiled, held her stomach, and slowly left the training room.

At that moment, Fujisaki screamed in her mind.

“A mille-feuille of a dangerous person on top of a dangerous personnnnnn!!”

And then Fujisaki stopped thinking. She rushed to the school store, bought a high-grade potion drink, and volunteered herself to Raigou as a test subject for her experimental partial-memory-erasure spell. And what of Ittou, who remained behind…?

“Um… I, I came to get some advice, actually…”

If those few words could have ended this war—spoken while he endured the impossible pressure sandwich—he would have been saved. The two froze. But the war did not end. They seized Ittou by the arms, dragged him into the private room, sat him on the bench, and trapped him between them. With the mille-feuille of magical pressure and the scent of what seemed like each girl’s shampoo enveloping him, Ittou’s head was spinning doubly hard.

“Ehh!! So, Itsukushima-kun, your current worries were two things, right? One is about your 【Original】—‘You want to compress magic to strengthen it, but your body and magical power aren’t enough to do it properly’!!”

“And the other is about your team. The team you’re currently with isn’t extremely strong, but their coordination is perfect, so you’re worried that ‘you might break their coordination by joining,’ correct?”

Even with Maru and Shinobu trying to pull Ittou closer to their own side—literally pressing closer and closer to him—he forced himself to straighten his back and nod, confirming the problems he was facing. The 【Original】 Ittou was developing was not becoming what he wished for.

He wanted a spell that could defeat even an adult like Kondou. But his current 【Original】 showed no sign of achieving that. To do so, he needed to compress a much larger amount of magical power, yet with Ittou’s current magic and body, he couldn’t withstand it. It would explode.

The other problem was even more serious. With the mid-term test approaching, he had been training with Team H, but once the members’ eyes started burning with determination, the issue surfaced. Team H’s coordination—the one Ura-Hana taught them.

When those girls, who fought desperately with clear goals, used it, it became flawless. While their magical power was lower than Team A’s, the teamwork allowed them to perform more than well enough. But because Noshiro’s delicate aggro-control formed the axis of their battles, whenever Ittou acted, he disrupted the balance. Ironically, Team H taking things seriously made Ittou’s out-of-place feeling even more visible, and he began to lose sight of his role.

“…What should I do?”

Ittou dropped his head powerlessly. His head was suddenly patted vigorously. When he looked up, Shinobu was staring at him with a red, flustered, troubled expression.

“Ah, s-sorry…! Um, it’s just… Yeah! You looked kind of like a puppy… So I just, um, did it without thinking!?”

“A puppy,” she said. Ittou didn’t know what to say and only laughed awkwardly. Shinobu also laughed “ahaha” and turned away. Then she brought her hand to her mouth, trying to steady her roughening breath.

(Aaaaaaaaah! No good! My protective instincts! My maternal instincts! They’re overflowing! What is that adorable creature!? Also, the smell of Ittou-kun’s shampoo on my right hand! Th-this is… This is way too dangerous…! But, just a little longer… Let me smell it for a little longer…)

Seeing Shinobu behaving strangely, Ittou tilted his head… Only for his body to get yanked and spun halfway around. Maru grabbed his shoulders firmly, grinning as she brought her face closer and closer.

“Uh, um…”

“Itsukushima-kuuun!! The answer is simple!! The situation you told us…. Your answer is already there!! But I’m kind, so!! I’ll teach you in an easy way!!”

Saying that, Maru did a backflip off the bench and drew the gun-shaped magic tool holstered at her waist.

“Ah, that’s…”

“First, I’ll show you one of my 【Original】!! …【Ichigan】.”

When Maru spoke its name, the magic tool in her hand began shining crimson, and at the same time, immense magical power gathered. The heat of that magical power alone made Ittou momentarily think the private room might melt. That condensed magic was the very power Ittou had been craving.

“This 【Original】, 【Ichigan】, can fire one ultra-powerful magic bullet of one chosen type per minute!!”

“O-one bullet per minute…?”

“Right!! There are eight bullet types right now!! And I can choose only one!! That restriction makes the magic even stronger!! The 【Hinomaru】 I showed earlier was the very first ultra-compressed fire-attribute bullet, and it’s the strongest bullet!!”

Strongest. Ittou accepted Maru’s words without question. The blast certainly had that level of force. He even believed that its single-shot power surpassed the magic of his grandmas. The sheer magical quantity made him clench his fists in frustration. Seeing those tightly clenched fists, Maru smiled and raised both hands lightly.

“But this 【Original】… I can’t use it alone.”

“Huh?”

Ittou let out a foolish sound. She couldn’t use it alone? Then did she have some partner who assisted this magic? He looked around, but the only person in the room was Shinobu, who shook her head. It wasn’t her.

“This 【Original】 exists only because of this gun-type magic tool. …This was made for me by a friend who entered this academy!! They made it for the sake of the old me—who could only burn everything down…!! And this ‘partner’ will grant my wish. Itsukushima-kun, most of your answers are right here!!”

Maru fired Ichigan toward the ceiling. The crimson straight line traced by the spell was so powerful that it broke through the ceiling, revealing blue sky. Through the small hole, the sky and sun were visible. Maru smiled, as dazzling as the sun itself.

“Love is everything!! Strong love squeezes everything together into one!! You learned that already, didn’t you!? Whether it’s people or objects or the world… Just love them more, more, moooore, Ittou Itsukushima!! When you think you’ve loved something to the limit, break that limit and find a new way to love it!! Love is the answer!!”

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